Adjectival Constructions in Business English Terminology

Abstract

The most pressing issue of modern terminology is the issue of its phraseologization and ambiguity. The work is aimed at finding out the availability and types of meaning transfer of the components in business English idioms with the Adjective as the first component of a phraseological unit and identifying their ability to variations. The object of the study is business English phraseological terms containing an initial adjectival component in their structure. The subject of the study is the type of meaning transfer in the component composition of phraseological units and the ability of phraseological units to variations within the frames of PU-term identity. In the study and analysis of business phraseology of a selected structural area, both macro-paradigmatic methods of linguistic research and non-paradigmatic methods and techniques of linguistics were used. Of particular importance for our study were the proposed by A. V. Kunin method and procedures of phraseological identification, methods of phraseological analysis and description. The following methods also served as a reliable scientific basis for the study of business terminology in the designated phraseological space: the method of structural analysis, the method of component analysis, the method of onedimensional modelling of phraseology. In the research some other methods were employed: methods for analysing the definitions of monolingual and explanatory dictionaries and methods of quantitative analysis. As a result of the research, two sub-types of meaning transfer in PU-term components were found out and to name them, correspondingly, two terms were introduced into meta-language of phraseology.